Ugly Fonts in Firefox

http://carnager.dyndns.org/font.png
just have a look... compared to opera it looks plain ugly.. and suggestions how to change this?

I have set it up exactly the same way as opera...
here a screen with firefox-optimised:
http://img292.imageshack.us/my.php?imag … 68shj0.png
you can also see both font configs, opera and firefox
Last edited by Rasi (2008-09-26 19:32:53)

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